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Kolya is not the only therapist making the rounds of the vast hospital complex at UCLA. There's also a poodle named Platinum, a pug named Egor and a greyhound named Aladdin--not to mention the eight golden retrievers, four black Labs, two German shepherds and several mutts. Canine candy-striping--which began in the 1980s as just another recreational activity for patients, like clown visits to children's hospitals or barbershop-quartet appearances at nursing homes--has evolved into an important and fast-growing component of modern patient care...
...ignore but impossible to satisfy. These days $3 billion is spent annually on advertising that is directed at kids--more than 20 times the amount a decade ago. Nearly half of all U.S. parents say their kids ask for things by brand names by age 5. "I might mention to a child that the dress she is wearing is cute," says Marci Sperling Flynn, a preschool director in Oak Park, Ill., "and she'll say, 'It's Calvin Klein.' Kids shouldn't know about designers at age 4. They should be oblivious to this stuff...
...They?re incredible statistics, but members of Congress - not to mention Democratic and Republican strategists - are much more interested in a totally different set of numbers gleaned from the 2000 census: They?re poring over the figures that will determine the shape...
...original "Planet of the Apes" was sci-fi with a conscience and camp with a purpose - not to mention one of popular cinema?s great all-time conceits. (You know, with the apes and the men). It came with higher hopes, and those were the hopes that Burton dashed when he decided to apply his "unique vision" to the sets - but not the script...
This wasn’t supposed to happen. For my first month in India, I had avoided any contact or reference to “Bollywood,” the Indian entertainment industry based out of Bombay. At first mention you might think, “Bollywood. Very cute. A cheap imitation of Hollywood.” That is, until you realized that Bollywood churns out hundreds more movies, songs, and music videos per year than its American counterpart and runs circles around Tinseltown in terms of gross revenues. Hindi movies constantly sell out theatres, and their soundtracks...